{"id":13260,"date":"2011-02-10T12:28:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T17:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=13260"},"modified":"2011-02-10T12:28:12","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T17:28:12","slug":"nba-handicapping-preview-dallas-mavericks-at-denver-nuggets-betting-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nba-handicapping-preview-dallas-mavericks-at-denver-nuggets-betting-predictions-13260\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Handicapping Preview: Dallas Mavericks at Denver Nuggets Betting Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dallas Mavericks at Denver Nuggets
\nThursday, 2\/10\/11, 7:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 TNT
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 210.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 210.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Denver Nuggets are favored over the Dallas Mavericks Thursday night at the Pepsi Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dallas carries in the longest winning streak in the league after capturing a 102-100 win on Wednesday night at Sacramento.\u00a0 The Mavericks leaned heavily on the play of Jose Juan Barea in the latest contest due to All-Star forward Dirk Nowitzki feeling the effects of a sore wrist.\u00a0 Nowitzki is averaging 30.7 points in his last three games versus Denver, which has helped the club win 16 of 20 in the series when scoring at least 25 points.\u00a0 The team is 37-15 overall this season and a solid 17-7 on the road, including a 9-3 mark against the Western Conference.\u00a0 Dallas is 6-1 ATS as a road underdog of three points or less this season and currently within that range on the NBA lines page.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks have actually dropped seven of the last 10 games in this series, while the two teams split the home-and-home last year with the road team winning each time.\u00a0 Dallas has won two of the last three match-ups at the Pepsi Center, after losing four straight up until January 13, 2009.\u00a0 The squad is looking to record its second double-digit win streak in a season for just the second time in franchise history.\u00a0 The Dallas bench has been instrumental in the team\u2019s recent play, averaging 59.0 points per game over the last two games.<\/p>\n

Denver has lost five of its last seven games and may have a tough time in picking up a victory Thursday night due to facing a defense that is allowing just 96.2 points per game over its current winning streak.\u00a0 The Nuggets are averaging an NBA-best 110.3 points at home this season and will shoot for the century mark, as the Mavericks have lost five of seven when allowing more than 100 points.\u00a0 Point guard Chauncey Billups will need to be on the court to make that possible, as he suffered a strained left knee injury on Monday, but he is expected to play tonight.\u00a0 Denver is 15-18 ATS as a favorite this season and 80-80 ATS in this situation the last three years.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets are a solid 21-7 at home this season, including a 13-6 mark against Western Conference opponents.\u00a0 Denver leads the NBA in scoring at 107.7 points a night and posted 114 points at Golden State, marking the 22nd time this season that the club has scored 110-plus points.\u00a0 The points haven\u2019t exactly led to automatic wins, when considering that four of the team\u2019s last seven opponents have scored 110-plus points, with the team going 2-5 in those games.<\/p>\n

Bettors are likely to back the Nuggets due to their 14-4 ATS mark in the last 18 meetings, while the Mavericks are 3-7 ATS as an underdog.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on all the winning action and let the NBA handicappers at Maddux Sports go to work for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dallas Mavericks at Denver Nuggets Thursday, 2\/10\/11, 7:30 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 TNT Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 210.5 Current Total:\u00a0 210.5 Dallas carries in the longest winning streak in the league after capturing a 102-100 win on Wednesday night at Sacramento.\u00a0 The Mavericks leaned heavily on the play […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[19,526,20,3637,3693],"class_list":["post-13260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-dirk-nowitzki","tag-pepsi-center","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13262,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260\/revisions\/13262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}